SMART TEXTILES WILL BE SMARTER AND MORE ACCESSIBLE IN COMING DECADE
September 1st, 2010
BY MARK ROWE
JUST how far can smart textiles go over of the next 20 years? If a Japanese clothing development company are to be believed, clothes will not only look stylish in future, they will also keep disease at bay. The company, Okayama-based Haruyama Trading (NOTE - SPELLING IS CORRECT), late last year released a prototype suit it claimed protected the wearer from the H1N1 strain of influenza. It was coated with a layer of titanium dioxide, which, according to the company, reacted to light to break down and kill the virus. It also came in four colours to ...
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